The Artist, David Gerard, created a marvelous art piece called The Rest on Flight into Egypt. The painting was crafted in 1510. The artwork depicts a “holy family” that emerged from a forest on the way to Egypt. The mother is holding baby Jesus while the father/husband, Joseph, gathers food. (The actual portrait shows the mother breast feeding the child, however that is not school appropriate.) The art piece was also inspired by the bible verse (Matt. 2:13-14) This specific biblical verse explains
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The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that began in the 1920s, brought an excitement and a new found freedom and voice to African-Americans who had been silent and oppressed for a long time. In Harlem between the 1920s to 1930s the African American culture flourished especially in arts and music. The Harlem Renaissance helped lay the foundation for the post-World War II protest movement of the Civil Rights Movement. During this period, Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists
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Responding with essay FINE ARTS WEEK 2 IF you were a accomplished man in the renaissance era what would be expected of me? Answer: To start off my response a renaissance man makes me think of a man that is a jack of all trades, a man that can do all sorts of different things. A man that has limitless capabilities in his ideas of everyday life and development of aspects in his surroundings. I believe he is a person that embraces all knowledge and develops his own capacity of skills as fully as possible
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Sandro Botticelli was one of the major Italian artists of the early Renaissance period in the 1400’s. Born in Florence, he was initially trained as a goldsmith before undertaking an apprenticeship under Italian artist, Fra Filippo Lippi. It is clear that Botticelli was influenced by Lippi for the rest of his life as ‘Filippesque characteristics are still found in his work of 1500’ (L.D. & Ettlinger 1976). By 1470 Botticelli had his own workshop and his pieces were already beginning to be characterised
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Before Europe became successful, they took a downfall in their population due to the bubonic plague “the black death”. The black death was a disease that decreased many countries population because it was killing over half of each country's population all across Afro-Eurasia. The spread of this disease was fast due to the climate changes, one known as “Little Ice Age”, that possibly was the reason why it weakened the population and left them vulnerable to the disease (textbook pg 385). During this
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Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a “Renaissance man.” Possessor of a curious mind and keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman. His ideas and body of work—which includes "Virgin of the Rocks," "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa"—have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily
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ardent desire, be it carnal or maudlin, can be found in forms of art from all ages. For example, the hit single “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley” is a testament to all love that holds steadfast whilst “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard” by Sir Walter Raleigh scolds the Shepard false vows of love and as the “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli exalts the beauty of the female physical form. These three classic pieces of art contain similar and distinct ideals that our society has imposed
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Course Date Music and Art The ‘alleluia’ is an organum by leonine. An organum is a polyphonic religious music, which was traditional during the early gothic era. This era referred to as the Ars Antiqua, translates as ‘the old art.’ This music is similar to the florid organum. “Marriage of the virgin” is located at the Arena chapel in Padua. It is the eleventh scene in the Italian fresco cycle by Giotto di Bondone’s “life of the virgin.” Joaquin’s “ave Maria,” a renaissance choral work, was a four-voice
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The Harlem Renaissance The end of World War I set up conditions for a new culture to emerge. Due to the abundance of jobs the war created, many African-Americans moved to the northern cities. In fact, so many of them moved up north, they created strong African-American communities, including Harlem in New York City. During the 1920’s, Harlem became the Mecca of Black culture and was home to many talented individuals from all fields. Roughly lasting from the end of World War I to the stock market
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Discuss in detail how feminist art challenged the existing conventions and expectations of art practice (practice) The feminist art movement began in the 1960’s as a result of various factors that based around the central premise of supporting women’s empowerment and equality and aims to equalise women in society. Feminist art practice challenged the conventions and boundaries established by previous art movements like Renaissance and Modernism, these were periods in art which were strongly male driven
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